You remember a while back I had a bit of a rant about one telemarketing company that kept on calling our landline even though all of our numbers are on the Do Not Call register? Well seems like the register is causing more of these cockbite spammers to get starving enough to try to get around the restrictions.

We're now getting about one call every couple of days, always with a Sydney caller ID but different company-like premium numbers ie. ones that end in 00 or 11. They hang up as soon as you or the answering machine picks up. I'm guessing the idea is that if you call them back you're somehow giving them tacit consent to call you. It's pissing me off. Not hugely but just enough to (once again) wish that s[p|c]ammers and telemarketroids (is there really much of a difference?) be the first up against the wall and shot in a revolution. In the knees.

Seems I'm not the only one. There's a really handy site that helps you gain more info about these bottomfeeders: whocallsme. Turns out every single 02 number we've had of late has been on this database. Ah well, it keeps the answering machine amused...

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Tags: spammers, diaf